Golfer Tiger Woods, badly injured in a car crash in Los Angeles, has
undergone extensive surgery on his right lower leg, ankle and foot.
There were comminuted open fractures of tibia and fibula.
He is currently undergoing alignment procedures under tension
(weight bearing) after all the fragments have been repositioned
with rods, screws and pins at the trauma centre at Harbor UCLA
Medical Center under the overall guidance of Dr Anish Mahajan.
Restrictions on gatherings and inter-State travel are being
proposed as effective steps to check the sudden second wave of
the covid epidemic. Karnataka has already enforced curbs on travellers
from Maharashtra and Kerala, insisting on those coming in must
have a negative test result. Night curfew being clamped in some
States is a political stunt and not a preventive step in itself.
In a letter to Mamata and Uddhav, the Sikh outfit cited exploitation
of their resources by the Centre since 1947. The SFJ told them they
have to become independent to safeguard the identity, language
and culture of the Bengali and Marathi peoples. The outrageous
proposal follows its failed attempts to hijack the farmers' agitation.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested in the US on drug charges
and for running her husband Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's drug
trafficking cartel while he is in jail.
Chinna Reddy of the Congress and BJP's candidate N Ramchander
Rao, the sitting MLC, are popular leaders while debutant Vani does
not have any political base of her own. However, KCR seeks to
make up for that by whipping up Telangana sentiments.
Prince Philip of Britain, 99, is in King Edward VII's hospital in
London. On Saturday his son Prince Charles visited him. He
was in tears. Charles was the only member of the royal
family who paid a visit.
The Congress lost majority support in a House of 33 members,
including three BJP nominees, as five party MLAs and one DMK
member had resigned. The CM left the House alongwith his supporters before taking the trust vote.
A sudden spike in covid cases is occurring in Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab and some other States. 4,618 Mumbai train passengers have been fined for violation of covid restrictions.
Rapper Kanye West has been suffering from mental issues; some
gossip sources say it has been bipolar, but he showed it up last
year joining the presidential race and weeping before the audience,
shouting out silly things for no rhyme or reason!
The sculpture was discovered by a Jain priest, who has so far found
over 20 such Jain idols in the region of Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu.
Once Jainism had flourished in Tamil Nadu.
The airport director and the Civil Aviation Ministry had requested
the Government to lift the restriction on domestic flights. The ban
on international flights will continue.
Over 250 people have been killed in France in terrorist attacks in 10
years. Paty was one of them. A teacher, he was killed for displaying a
controversial cartoon of Prophet to some students.
The Mars rover, a six-wheeled, SUV-sized robotic vehicle, sailed
through space for seven months to land on a prime spot for geo-biological study of the red planet for signs of ancient extraterrestrial life. It takes radio waves 11 minutes to reach Earth. (Listen to:- DAVID BOWIE: Life
On Mars?:)
While the rationalists debunk the episode as a ploy to make up for
the losses in offerings during the corona lockdown, the believers
stick to their claim, they have seen it after all! The claim of
Shankaralinga temple resembles the miracle of Ganesha drinking
milk in Delhi way back in 1995. Although they belong to two
different branches of science.
After his reappearance, Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares went up
by 8.5%. The Chinese billionaire made his public appearance on
Wednesday. (SEE Video: Davos 2015 - An Insight An Idea with
Jack Ma - A conversation with Jack Ma, Founder and the then Executive
Chairman of Alibaba Group, on leadership, entrepreneurship and
the future of commerce: Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Anchor, CBS
News, USA)
A pair of socks gifted to her by her niece displayed on her legs has done
the job for Gumball Poodle. The demand for 'Future is Female' is
skyrocketing indeed. What more could one ask for?
At that momentous event, "I will be thinking about my
mother (the late Shyamala Gopalan), who is looking down
from heaven," Harris said. The scaled back presidential
inauguration this time will have no precedent with a
devastating coronavirus locking down everything and a
heightened security bandobast with reports of armed Trump
protesters likely to re-enact the Capitol episode posing the
gravest threat to Biden, the President-elect, and others.
"We were taught to see a world beyond just ourselves. To be
conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people."
- Kamala Harris, Vice-President-elect, United States of America.
She is releasing a series of her reminiscences of her early
period, of people and events that had deep influence on the
course of her life and thoughts, in the coming days leading up to
her inauguration as the Vice-President of America, the first
woman ever to occupy a position that high in the greatest
democracy yet.
OPINION: Byju’s to take over Aakash? If and when the deal comes through,
it would be one of the biggest edtech acquisitions in the world.
These are signs of the dawn of a new era facilitated by science and technology,
busting the Indian ubiquitous rackets one by one like the massive politician-British
clerk-NCERT-printer-newsprint-fake author racket, which led to a mushroom growth
of tuition centres like Aakash, which, of course, has done a yeaoman service
to the hapless victims of our Macaulay schools.
COMMENT: There is widespread criticism that the postponed CBSE
examination schedule will affect the students seeking admissions
abroad and it should be preponed. Such a question could never be
raised in any country, other than India! The CBSE examination, let
us be clear, is not conducted for foreign admissions. Secondly,
which university is going to start admissions during the current
global pandemic.
COMMENT: The nursing staff union at the AIIMS is on indefinite
strike, not because some injustice has been done to any of
them. They are dictating how the AIIMS should make
appointments. Rather, they have decided that the AIIMS should
not make contractual appointments. It reminds one of the union
days of 1970s when, whether private or Government, an
employee could not even be shifted from one section to another
without triggering a strike. There used to be thousands of
workers' unions on the roads in Delhi those days every day,
striking work and blocking traffic. Nobody could do anything
about it. All these were due to the self-seeking leaders who
were building up their parties and canvassing their vote banks;
and they were the real exploiters. Our type of democracy
allowed it. And who were the losers in that game? The working
class, getting a pension of Rs 500 per month today! They would
have been, instead, flourishing today with prosperity and self-respect, without any 'ism'. In a genuine democratic set-up this
type of decadent unionism will not rear its head. Because those
opportunities will be absent. India does not have such a
'functional democracy,' a democracy that will work for everyone.
It is not in our Constitution!
The first woman Vice-President has become an inspiration for girls
of colour, and for all girls. Kamala Harris is becoming an icon. Her
passionate speech had a great, lasting impact on the listeners,
when she said, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will
not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that
this is a country of possibilities.”
Yet another helpless Indian woman having had to go to Saudi Arabia in search of work as maid servant has reportedly died of physical and mental torture
by her employer, it has been alleged. However, the Indian Foreign Ministry has
said after an inquiry that she died of natural causes.
Unlimited excitement will be on offer in Dubai as Lionsgate Entertainment
and The 20th Century Fox are building theme parks to provide the audience an
illusion of experiences of timeless horror of the Titanic disaster and the death and rebellion of the dystopia.
PUDUCHERRY (PONDICHERRY)
Promenade Beach, Paradise Beach, Auroville Beach, Serenity Beach, Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Church of the Capuchins, Manakula Vinayagar Temple, Thirukaameeswarar Temple (Periya Koil), Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, French War Memorial, Romain Rolland Library, Governor's Palace, Bharati Park (Government Park), Light House, Chunnambar Beach, Backwater Resort
The cluster infection took place well within the hostel as the
students had just come and all of them could possibly not have
brought the virus from home simultaneously. And this speed...
Apart from Bhujbal, Ministers Anil Deshmukh, Rajendra Shingne,
Rajesh Tope, Satej Patil, Bachchu Kadu and Jayant Patil had earlier
tested positive for covid. Last year 12 Ministers had
caught the virus.
The Centre has approved the President's Rule in Puducherry as the
Opposition did not stake claim to form a Government after Chief
Minister V Narayanasamy resigned without taking a vote of trust.